Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!